I Samuel Quotes

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

What was God doing with himself before the creation?

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.